We're fucked. For extreme acts of political violence, the book needs to be thrown harder at people. Jailing terrorists only allows them to convert more. They deserve permanent solitary confinement. The death penalty is giving them what they want, they become martyrs. They need to suffer in a sobering way.

Yeah, it's the same with his older brothers and his pa, so the kid kind has no choice but to grow up and be a dick. Unless Melania pulls a Marla Maples and dumps his ass, kind will grow up around and be influenced by Cheeto Head.

This is corruption of the highest order. Justice is supposed to be blind. His presidency is to use the law to pardon people he likes including himself and to punish people he doesn't like or those he perceives to be a threat to him.

A sure sign that the Russia investigation is going nowhere, he'll pardon anyone who keeps their mouth shut.

He's also potentially going to rip up DACA to go after dreamer kids.

We're not even into the Autumn yet, this is going to get a lot uglier.

The thing about throwing around pardons though, is that being pardoned will remove their 5th amendment protections. So they can still be compelled to testify, without the threat of incrimination. At that point, if they don't testify they could be subject to perjury/obstruction charges.

Pardons would be an instant gratification solution, that may have far running and reaching consequences.

So I dare you, Trump. I double dog dare you. Go and pardon everybody

Brandon Morrison - Chief of Staff and Forum Attaché to the Grand Chancellor

It's stunning to hear climate change denying politicians sound shocked that Harvey was such a historically devastating hurricane. Saw Rick Perry get asked a question about warming seas putting his fingers in his ears was the response. Christ.

Trump today announced he will end DACA. He didn't have the balls to do it himself either. A real stand up guy to make this many people subject to deportation when they don't know another country, don't know another language and were brought by their parents. This cunt has to be impeached or bullied into resigning, enough is enough. He'll send a seal team to break Anders Breivik out of prison at the rate he's going, all done to shore up the base. I say fuck his base. They're lower than white trash, they're white toxic waste.

I'm going to make a possibly hot take here: DACA actually is bad, and for all of the terrible reasons people want to shut it down, they're actually in the right.

I say that purely in the policy sense: I don't want my President able to ostensibly pass law through executive order. If it's okay for Obama, then it would be okay for Trump. And I don't want Trump having even an inkling of having that much power (ie. the transgender ban. Even though he's said it, and it's being worked on being implemented, it's a lot different of a process than if Trump could just decree something and it be the rule).

The thinking behind Obama's move with DACA was obviously a stopgap, to try to compromise on some level, while Congress got their crap together to pass immigration reform for real. Which they didn't, because they're so useless it's not funny. And I mean that on both sides. But their failure to pass some kind of legislation is why we're in this mess: Obama overstepped his Executive authority because Congress cannot be any less useful.

Ending the executive order, with the intent to make Congress do their fucking job, is actually the right thing to do, from the economic and (more importantly) moral perspectives. Having an actual law to follow, whether Congress just actually passed a DACA-style bill or came up with anything else, is what is best for the DREAMERS that are hanging in limbo. The big problem is that Congress will hold the hand grenade until it explodes, rather than actually doing their fucking job.

Because they couldn't be more useless

Brandon Morrison - Chief of Staff and Forum Attaché to the Grand Chancellor